Abandoned Southern New Jersey - Cinematic Drone Flight over Ruins - Mavic Air 2

Wanting to really add a new layer to my adventure videos, I picked up a Mavic Air 2, a drone by DJI, and took it out for a spin. I've never flown a drone before and this footage is from my first test flights. It's a relatively portable setup that I think shouldn't be difficult to bring on future expeditions.
This video was done as a test, but if it does well, I might do more standalone drone videos of abandoned locations.

[@avaughn828]

The NJ Board of Tourism should pay you for this footage. Truly highlights the beauty of the state especially in South Jersey.

[@garyhaber333]

Exactly!!❤

[@garyhaber333]

I JUST FOUND YOUR CHANNEL! LOVE IT!❤ When i used to live in SoCal years ago, I treated my wife to a long weekend aboard the Queen Mary for our 25th anniversary years ago. It was truly an experience. We walked the entire ship at 230am, i have a picture of my wife walking up the stairway outside the pool area with a fuzzy apparition following her. So yes, the Queen i think is haunted. You should send beautiful video to the visitors center of NJ for them to use as a promotional video for the state of NJ... I'm sure they'd love it. I'm also now planning on getting a Mavic Air 2!! All the footage is ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL❤❤❤❤ THANK YOU! God bless from SW TX 🙏🏼🙏🏼❤❤🤠

[@showard6721]

Absolutely stunning. Rich with cultural heritage of Southern New Jersey. Well done!

[@kurtmuller6750]

I lived in New Jersey for half my life. While you couldn't get me to move back there now, it's watching things like this that make me miss it.

[@calebflub]

Same! Grew up in S. Jersey and moved away 18 years ago to move out west. I don't want to go back to South NJ to live, but it was a wonderful place to grow up in the 80s. This video was very nostalgic.

[@rosiegirl2485]

Get rid of Jersey's governor...then it could be that great state again!

[@MegaBait1616]

Same for me.....bought a house in NC.... Too many laws, taxes, anti everything and the Trenton Government sucks........ be well.

[@MegaBait1616]

@@rosiegirl2485 , Agreed Murphy sucks plain n simple....... retired lil early n bought a house In NC.... BE WELL.....

[@riandraegon556]

I’d go back if I could afford to live where I’d want to live.

[@feloniusduck183]

These shots are invaluable documentation of beautiful small communities dotted throughout an even more beautiful and fragile ecosystem. Thank you for sharing this.

[@AndyHappyGuy]

This is both beautiful and sad at the same time.

[@FreedomLovingLoyalistOfficial]

Agree.

[@UNCLECHUDKINZ]

South Jersey doesn't get the respect it deserves. We got a little of everything. Close to 2 major cities, farm lands, swamps, suburbs, ghettos, amazing beaches and everything else. Hope to see Atlantic City return to former glory.

[@defwebsolutions]

Always nice to feel time slow down and enjoy music and beautiful scenery

[@xHDdjuTrAXx--XIIX-]

I think it’s so weird that all those little yachts are just sailing through that railroad bridge, like.....it has a story and all...but life goes on. I love it.

[@user-jj3tw1sr7o]

Extremely good video, great photography, fantastic editing and phenomenal sound track. The subject matter was both visually pleasing and yet haunting. First one of your videos I have watched and I am subscribing. Thanks keep it up.

[@Shadowfax-1980]

This is where I grew up. Brings back many memories.

[@defwebsolutions]

Nice!

[@butchbrown5283]

Just came across this video. Growing up on Rt 49 across from NJ Silica Sand that area was our summer time playground. Brings back great memories.

[@kaneki-ken96]

This video is really impressive. All those abandoned places and that ship... they make me feel nostalgia about these places I've never been to from a time I didn't live. And the music is perfect

[@cindypatterson5658]

I so enjoyed this. This is the NJ I love. Lived here all my life; know many of the places (like East Point, Mauricetown, etc. Had no idea about many. I now want to see for myself. Thank you! And continue to explore and share please.

[@FreedomLovingLoyalistOfficial]

This video hits me a bit. It's like going back to childhood.

[@rodneyhoyup3219]

Great!! We live up north, my parents are near Ocean City NJ. We love our state!! Im 42 and never lived in any other.

[@randydiamond7276]

Its sad to see this stuff rot away thinking about the homes that once stood that had a family in them. And what it was like during those wondering who were they and knowing they arent here anymore its pretty upsetting.

[@liamsharpe23]

This is truly an outstanding video. Seeing these abandoned and practically forgotten places (and ships) from above is not only unique, but simply beautiful as well. An absolutely stunning video, well done! I hope to see more content like this in the future.

[@FLYGUYMERRILL]

Simply Amazing Visuals....Well put together footage....The Jersey shore is my second home....pretty good cinematic moves for a first flight of the Air 2....I purchased mines in July and I'm definitely have it on my list to shoot some Jersey stuff...I definitely smashed that like button and subscribed....keep up the great work!!

[@caseychrapuch88]

Thank you for making this, I love south jersey and this really shows the magic of the quiet less traveled shore towns

[@jessicamoore7398]

i grew up in that area and watching this made me miss it

[@killyourtelllievision]

I would say that if that was your first excursion into drone piloting and you managed to keep her aloft and brought her to ground safely, you've got a very good beginning to continue in that direction. At least a few people I know have bought expensive first drones only to get them back in pieces if at all

[@Dr_E_Yekley]

I like your style, can't wait to see more drone footage

[@titanicman9329]

One of the most wholesome videos I have had the pleasure to watch in this day and age. Stay safe out there all of you.

[@nateeaton1]

Yes, please do more of these. It's the best drone footage I've seen of South Jersey areas. Thank you.

[@David-fm6go]

Breath taking footage. Imagine the cost of getting that with a helicopter. Helps put the technological progress into perspective. That said surprised NJ has banned or heavily find this kind of thing.

[@Hiker58]

Wonderful tour of a little known corner of New Jersey. If this is test footage I look forward to many more. The captions are excellent!

[@gregbrown5020]

All houses eventually become empty leaving not a rack behind. Excellent, had no idea so many s.j. relics still there. Usually hate bgm but this was a pleasant exception.

[@smcgraw3002]

You did an excellent job I've always wondered the story behind the Hazel Moore Ship by the East Point Lighthouse I stumbled upon it by accident years ago thank you keep doing what you do!!!

[@robertaviles8451]

I love the old abandoned buildings. Back when I was riding the school bus, my driver Frank (probably in his 60's) drove a route that passed by his father's old gas station! One day, he allowed me and a friend to look into one of the windows. The single gas pump had long since lost the front and back, leaving the innards exposed. It was pitch black in the old store. We couldn't go in, due to the floor being rotted out, but it was still nice of Frank. There was also an abandoned school, but I don't really have any information on it unfortunately. Oh man, if only those old walls could talk, think of all the history they would have to tell!

[@paultindall2719]

Top notch work excellent

[@howardhenry4142]

Thank you for the concrete ship footage. It brought a boyhood memory back to me....My father and I were on the Cape May Lewes ferry and he pointed the Concrete Ship, out to me....

[@PartTimeExplorer]

Howard Henry make sure you check out another video on my channel - I kayak into the wreck and tell the full history of the ship!

[@danflury5688]

Bravo! Very moving...and that's what movies are supposed to do....'move you' ! I knew many of those places...brought it all back.. Thank you..

[@shelbym9323]

Absolutely amazing. It's hard finding great footage of the jersey shore and the pine barrens. You didn't show exactly where I grew up (i grew up in atlantic county, so not quite as south but close), but man it made me miss jersey and the shore. If you ever end up back there taking more drone footage, check out the edwin b forsythe reserve (if they allow drone footage, of course) and the weymouth and estell manor areas.

[@MyClutteredGarage]

Spectacular flying and editing. I’ve wondered if the Mavic Air 2 is a worthwhile upgrade, and this is very convincing. Great job!

[@PartTimeExplorer]

Thanks! This is my first drone ever, so I can't speak for any others in comparison. I was, however, planning to get the Mavic Mini, but I was convinced to go next level up by the amazing cinematic shots I was seeing on youtube.

[@felixruiz2838]

Excellent video !!!!

[@Horizon344]

Nicely filmed. That rain-cloud 1:44, & the freight trains at 1:24 were particularly good. Interesting to see the military fortifications built against the threat of the III Reich stretched as far across the ocean as this. It would be interesting to get inside Battery #223 to look around. Also looking at this one is reminded of how new in historical terms the USA is, & - to British eyes - how fragile much of its outlying rural townscapes appear with their transient wooden construct buildings. This still temporary condition that is America is quite interesting given its current politico-societal situation.

[@JWall416]

I’ve seen a few photos of the inside of the bunker; apparently it was stripped out and abandoned after the ‘62 nor’easter (it had been used for some sort of sonar station until then) and got about a foot of seagull droppings inside before being sealed with concrete blocks (for now).

[@petersipp5247]

There is a German sub that is on the bottom north and a little east of Barnegat Light.

[@johnfahy6353]

Beautiful, I enjoyed the accompanying piano too . I visit the areas in video also sailed by them . Thanks

[@jm-bv1wh]

Wow, a great video. Sorry to find it so late. Excellent work for your first time using a drone - you must be a natural! I've been to most places in the video, but nice to see it from a different perspective. Will be going there a lot this Summer.

[@rachelann9362]

Lovely footage and beautifully edited!

[@davebates3678]

Great job! Thanks sooo much for doing this! I often thought it would be neat to do something like this and you actually went and did it! Congrats!

[@jonzaremba]

Gorgeous footage. Thank you.

[@rickseyeview5345]

Very interesting! Thanks for the great flight!

[@shealaking8557]

That's some wonderful footage and editing work. Great music to enhance the experience. You folks have a lovely part of the world, thanks so much for sharing!🙂

[@dunbrine47]

I'd love to see more of these in the future.

[@medic0684]

Outstanding video !!!!

[@Twitch0331]

What an amazing video. 💯💯💯

[@thecunarder7297]

This is a very well made video, the drone footage is stunning!

[@Hibernia2324]

Beautifully done. What was the red building that looked like a covered bridge? My husband and I stumbled upon Bivalve and Shell Pile in the early 90s. The East Pt Lighthouse was all brick then. It's heartbreaking to see the towns in such disrepair. The schooner Clyde Phillips was in dry dock then and volunteers were restoring it. At least that work was completed and it's now the official state schooner. That bunker in Cape May was in the water back in the 80s. There was a steep wooden bridge or stair case (I'm old enough to be forgetting details) to get to the top of it.

[@ACFD781]

She was rechristened in 1995 to her former name, The A.J. Meerwald

[@jerseyshoredroneservices225]

Interesting, beautiful short film you've made. Really appreciate all the time it took you to go to all these places and then do the editing. One bit of feedback if you want it, is that most of the video is a little too dark. I'm in a dim room with a calibrated monitor and I had to stop after a few minutes to turn up the brightness. Otherwise it's beautiful.

[@triplescrewsteamers]

Looks amazing!

[@josephinemiller68]

That was lovely

[@jw4321]

Super job!

[@cherri400]

Beautiful !

[@yvetteaguirre9522]

I’m so late for this video! Glad I watched though. Wonderful!💙

[@notloganparker]

Awesome video, really beautiful shots.

[@coreypage2851]

Great work!

[@chrissanfino761]

Excellent! You found all the awesome spots in south jersey. Great cinematography

[@nancypatterson845]

Great! Thank you so much!!!

[@l.l.2463]

I really enjoyed this!

[@frederickgiebel1364]

I enjoyed that. Thank you.

[@RusticVentures]

Excellent video!

[@kenduejones]

Great job🎥📸💯

[@brigcastle]

Very cool.

[@roelpiepenbrink700]

Very interesting. Thank you!

[@momentum7233]

Cool video bro!

[@johnhayes1641]

So many gravel bike possibilities!!

[@victordankanych]

Awesome

[@delo1960]

well done.....nice piloting

[@RodneyBellco72]

Nicely done! Loved the video and the music! Thank you for sharing my new friend! Gave ya a like and subbed!

[@bangsajdt]

Good job.nice review.please make more videos with your mavic air 2.

[@MillerMeteor74]

7:16 - I have seen that and have pictures of it, but don't know what it is, or was. Cool to see it in this video.

[@manny3655]

Thank you.

[@mustafanazifart]

very nice place.. i like it.

[@manumuskin]

The ruins at the one minute mark are the silica sand plant ruins not Fries MIll. Fries Mill is up The Manumuskin at head of tide water and just beyons.Its position is plainly shown on the old topo maps. There are old cellar holes and chimneys there and the ruins of the actual mill,just foundations really. Oh and in spite of popular belief Mauricetown has never been abandoned. Nice Video

[@ole5539]

I attended 1st and 2nd grade in the old schoolhouse in Mauricetown (built back in the late 1700's I believe), 6th grade in the old firehouse. No, the town still stands, many of the old ship captain homes have been redone but it still exists, alive and well...except for the old bridge across the river itself. This was a grand place to grow up; hayrides in the autumn and caroling at Christmas...I look back fondly, yet so distant both in time and space.

[@GeneDeLisa]

Thanks

[@chriswitt2596]

Just looking at this for the first time. Really beautifully done. Fell in love with the background piano music what is that could you tell me please thank you keep up the good work

[@markstott6689]

Perhaps, in around 100 years, most of this coast will be lost. Sea level rises will drown most low lying lands so documenting them now makes a lot of sense. 😢❤😢

[@Brandi6666]

My inlaws owned the point of east point nj about 300 yrd from that light house. He was a commercial eeler i spent many weekends down there. Even rented a house right on the front near the gettys 🤘❤️ they are buried in mauricetown cemetary

[@Mradamsthe3rd]

I live in south jersey Salem county to be more precise and it’s honestly astounding it’s so full of open space and “nothingness” but in all reality there’s so much here to be found but it’s not gonna be up on a billboard ya gotta get out

[@greenlaneamerica2306]

Awesome video. Do you know where to find more info on the Hazel Moore? I did a quick search and couldn’t find anything. It would be cool to find a picture of the ship and learn the story.

[@PartTimeExplorer]

It's been hard to find any real information on that ship, but I have found one photograph of it when it first came to rest there and was in pristine condition. I'd like to dive a bit more into the ship's history later and see what I can uncover, as well as do a walking tour video of the wreck site.

[@vidya1957]

Cool video. Lots of interesting sites captured. I would not, however, consider The Cape May-Lewes Ferry, or the ruins of the Atlantus, the bunker or the Cape May Canal "abandoned Southern Jersey." The former is utilized by thousands of people and the latter are visited by many tourists each day.

[@PartTimeExplorer]

Well yeah, the ferry and Mauricetown are sorta sprinkled in among the rest.

[@LawnDad]

Great video! Have you explored anything in Atlantic County, NJ?

[@FootprintPhoto]

Hi, could you tell me the music you used in this excellent video. i am a drone pilot in England and it would be perfect for a client video I'm working on - thanks, Nick

[@Kodobrr]

Watch the video till the end.

[@EasleyBandBusMom]

Is anything remaining of the old Egg Island (Point) Lighthouse? Or of the old House of Jacob/Church of the North Star in Bi-Valve/Port Norris area?

[@PartTimeExplorer]

Mel Van It looks like there might be minor remains of the Egg Island light, but what an endeavor it would be to get out to it! May give it a shot though. As for the Church- if it’s the building I’m thinking of that was on the street corner in bivalve, it was torn down a few years ago and nothing at all remains.

[@tomslifecheshire7448]

Great footage, ive got my work cut out keeping up with you ;)

[@PartTimeExplorer]

You've got some really good stuff

[@tomslifecheshire7448]

@@PartTimeExplorer Thanks man! KZbin is an exciting place to be :)

[@filipdemski8303]

Woww! Amazing shots! Did you took them from your drone? How long did you learn how to use it?

[@rancidschannel3206]

Wow, all those abandonned tank wagons. When was the line last used?

[@joemcginty7]

This is so great. Would love a map!

[@robertcarnegie8919]

Just use Google in satellite mode and you can find all the places, does help if you are from that area however. But Southern Jersey is known as the place that "Time Forgot", and this video proves it!

[@TheFlopped2979]

@@robertcarnegie8919 well im on google aps and i cant find it, coordinates????

[@ricgrass]

Where is the covered bridge?

[@kamuelalee]

Great footage. Were you using any ND filters on these flights?

[@sidpook]

I kayak in that ship all the time

[@DiazKM]

What location was 7:10?

[@Jersey4x4]

Where was that covered bridge at?

[@PartTimeExplorer]

On a farm in Cape May

[@wckdkl0wn]

Anything left of Seabreeze?

[@AnthonyZuccarello5]

Name of song in background?

[@shane6450]

Listen to “Fall of the Confederacy” by Adam Young. It sounds just like this with a similar melody but better. You might know him by his popular project Owl City. He also makes scores and has instrumental side projects. You’ll like it, I promise.

[@TonyNovak]

Why is so much of South Jersey abandoned? Plain and simple: it is too damned difficult and expensive to get government's cooperation and the required permits. Economic recovery experts and business leaders, including our businesses nonprofit organizations have faced this time and again. We have a 'one size fits all' approach to permitting cost in the state while everyone recognizes that what is appropriate, affordable and manageable in the northern part of the state is simply economically impossible here in South Jersey. We have the technology and resources to rebuild responsibly and sustainably here, but can't afford the government required permit costs. As an example, one small community sustainability project I worked on last month called a "ramp of last resort" where the physical materials (mostly concrete blocks) cost $5,000, the labor would be donated by local businesses and nonprofits, but the permitting legal and engineering cost would be $25,000+, so the project was abandoned because of this. Even the NJDEP leadership in charge of permitting knows that the system is broken. Our local politicians seem to have given up hope of reforming the NJDEP permit process. Thus, most of my rural South Jersey county sits in ruins despite our efforts at sustainable recovery.

[@PartTimeExplorer]

Tony Novak You said it

[@TheFlopped2979]

can you atleast say where this is?

[@catdog7497]

you could have used that drone the first time you went there when you and emma got separated from your friend x'D

[@ZaviaaDHagwood]

Im turning all that shit into cali